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Programming with Rust
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Programming with Rust

by Donis Marshall
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 31m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Lifetimes

An important promise from Rust to developers is memory safeness, which is enforced within the ownership model. Ownership and borrowing are two of the three pillars in the ownership model. Lifetimes is the final pillar to complete our conversation about the subject. Despite this laudable goal, there is a general misunderstanding of lifetimes within the Rust community. Most Rust developers are satisfied knowing just enough about lifetimes to prevent the borrow checker from complaining. The objective of this chapter is to provide clarity on this important topic. Lifetimes should be a benefit, not something to ignore.

Lifetimes is another unique feature within the Rust language. Other languages, such as C, C++, and Java, do not have ...

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